Splus

What is Splus?

Splus is a scientific computing environment that combines mathematics, advanced data visualization, scientific graphics, and a graphical user interface toolkit to analyze and visualize scientific data.

How to use Splus

To run Splus enter the following command:

Splus

To access the Splus help system under X Windows, you will need to run Splus then enter its help system. For example:

% setenv DISPLAY YourMachineName:0.0
% Splus
S-PLUS : Copyright (c) 1988, 1993 Statistical Sciences, Inc.
S : Copyright AT&T.
Version 3.2 Release 1 for Sun SPARC, SunOS 4.x : 1993 
Working data will be in /home/boyd/.Data 
> options(gui="motif")
> help.start()
>

To access the Splus help system without X Windows (i.e. over a modem), you will need to run Splus then enter its help system. For example:

% Splus
S-PLUS : Copyright (c) 1988, 1993 Statistical Sciences, Inc.
S : Copyright AT&T.
Version 3.2 Release 1 for Sun SPARC, SunOS 4.x : 1993 
Working data will be in /home/boyd/.Data 
> help()
>

To start a graphics window type:

motif()

To run a Splus Source (or script) file (i.e. your Splus program) type:

source("filename")

where filename is the file name of the program you want to run.

Manuals Availability

Manuals are available from the System Administrator and/or the machine room book shelf.

Availability

S-Plus is available on the Suns.

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